Eanna Whelan

It is a chorus of frogs.

We often talk about the dawn chorus on this programme.

We're getting ready for that now.

But birds aren't the only creatures that sing in the mating season.

Frogs do.

These aren't just annual frogs.

These are edible frogs, a species that is known by reputation because it's the original frog that

produce the frog's legs that were widely eaten in France and still are, although they eat many other species there now as well.

But they're very abundant in the Camargue.

You see a lot of them.

They're a relatively large frog and they're quite dark and have a green stripe down their back.

So they're really quite dramatic looking and a really lovely sound.

But they kind of go in waves.

So that was in the middle of the afternoon.

I was going through the wetland reserve, this natural park in the Camargue, which is, I should explain this,

It's the floodplain of the River Rhone near Arles.

It's this huge big wetland, so full of wildlife, one of the jewels in the crown of European wildlife, I would say.

It's absolutely gorgeous.

And I was there mainly to see the birds.

But when you're there, you can't help but watch all the reptiles and the horses.